Carport Installation Services in Bridgewater, MI

“Once again Watermark Homes team of professionals delivers outstanding service and results with this our 2nd home renovation project with them. Christian has turned our cramped, inefficient 1930 kitchen into a more spacious, beautiful and useful space. Clever design details and skilled craftsmanship are always foremost when working with Christian and his team. We know we can count on them to creatively and cost efficiently tackle those unforeseen issues inherent in old house renovation. Their suggestions to fine tune the kitchen design details have added great value and utility to our original plan. It was again a pleasure to have the Watermark craftsmen and their well coordinated subcontractors working in our home. Always considerate and efficient, the team works hard to deliver high quality finishes to surprise and delight the homeowner. We recommend Watermark Homes without reservation.”

“Acheson Builders design team and crew remodeled our entire home. What started as a mother-in-law suite addition grew to a full kitchen remodel, expanding from 1 1/2 baths to 3 1/2 baths, all new windows, siding, roof, chimney, sunroom, deck and hardwood flooring. A lot of money invested but so much professional quality, care and concern every step of the way by the Acheson team.”

“Steve came to our home and did a great and professional job. He installed two plugs in the kitchen. One of them had to be cut into the inch thick back splash. My wife was concerned about how this would turn out because you only get one chance to make it right. It was perfect and she was very excited to have the extra outlet for her kitchen. Steve also put in 4 ceiling lights and a switch in the basement. Overall we couldn't be more satisfied with the work. Anything we need done in the future Handy Hometown Services and Steve will be our first and only call.”

“We have had two excellent experiences with Perkins Construction Company. The first job entailed window replacement and residing of our house. Perkins brought great attention to detail to this task. Details associated with house wrap, flashing, and siding reveals were handled carefully. The result was and still is beautiful and durable. The second job was a complete remodeling of the living areas of our house – living room, kitchen, dining room, and hallways. This entailed a completely new kitchen, new hardwood flooring, new balustrade, and new casings. The project resulted in a wonderful transformation of these spaces, again with excellent workmanship. Perkins also provided excellent design consultation during the process.”

“Job was finished even earlier than originally predicted. I love how my vision came together with their help! The RTA cabinets I chose are great and a cheaper option with CTS putting them together and installing. Love the quartz countertop as well from their recommended dealer.”

“Keith is the brother or father you wish you had in the construction business! His initial estimates are reasonable ones, so he won't be coming back through the project asking for extra money he should have anticipated. The quality of his thinking and pre-planning the details for our projects was better than other contractors who charged more and eventually delivered poorer results. He's very responsive to owner's concerns & he spotted any details not up to his standards before we could open our mouths to point them out. The workers he brought to our house were good ones that did not make us feel concerned for our safety or anything else. Although he has sifted the suppliers he deals with over time to the most responsible ones, he is also willing to pursue items or suppliers the homeowner wants to see which is a better choice. As a small company, it is not always possible for him to be the fastest on every project despite rain or delivery delays, but the end result was always worth any wait. In 2006 (our first project together) we hired Keith from 3 "moderately-priced contractors" recommended by the architect: Keith tore off the top of our 1950s detached garage, raised the walls to match house height, created great storage space under a roof pitched to match the house's and a connecting roof between buildings, re-sided the garage & sunny half of house with Hardie® board & battens to match original, adding insulation too, along with matching copper gutters & matching aluminum-clad overhand trellis work properly topped with copper for a seamless look. The long driveway & turnaround were completely rebuilt with proper slope away from garage & house, which required re-doing the adjacent front lawn & flagstone path and a November search for large white limestone blocks (for stairs where there had already been a too-steep path) to match the original stone porch & steps from a now-closed quarry. More recently, he repaired an original shower stall built by Italian craftsmen (without damaging tiles of shore birds hand-painted by the original owner Genevieve Gillette, ASLA the first woman landscape architect in Michigan and first inductee in the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame for her life's work in discovering, obtaining, and raising funds for local, state, & federal parks; and without destroying the irreplaceable original mosaic shower floor that matches the room's floor); installed a shower venting fan & repaired plaster ceiling; installed a granite countertop & light fixture that made the small space function better & look great, and touched up paint dinged in the work process. His work saved us an historic loss at less than 1/3 of replacement costs. Keith also went above & beyond his duty restoring the clear finish on original white oak window trim & large overmantle in living room that had been corrupted by some undiscoverable substance which caused it to repel several rounds of sanding and varnishing. In 2011 following our ideas, he completely remodeled our pass-through laundry/mechanical room for $17k. This included grinding & leveling the concrete floor damaged by a previous owner's remodeling; repairing an exterior wall surface, creating cupboards to match the existing original 1950s one to enclose all the mechanical devices while maintaining easy access, plus additional pantry storage; correcting decades of convoluted plumbing (and restoring a disappeared outdoor faucet with one having hot & cold water) & wiring (while adding a whole-house surge protector), adding functional lighting, outlets, & switches, spray painting the open ceiling to maintain accessibility for the final few remodeling projects, substituting a double stainless steel laundry sink for the non-original single fiberglass one (installing it perfectly centered on window), new laundry appliances, stainless counter tops designed to move for access to plumbing, hanging an expensive but slightly out-of-square mirrored rack so it looks right, etc. The most memorable moment of this project came on the initial half-day of demolition: While Keith & his brother were packing up to leave, we all noticed that the window well was filling with water & starting to cascade into the room under the 1950s Pella® casement window. First we all jumped to turn off water valves; next the men were outside in the window well trying to unclog its drain to avoid the window glass shattering. Another company quickly snaked the entire perimeter drain system. Neither Keith nor his brother would leave me alone until everything was put right indoors and plans to correct the problem the very next workday were in place. [FYI: As with all "accidents", this one required the coming together of several factors: Screen over window well's drain dislodged recently by some small animal allowing pipe to fill with debris; drain pipe for water softener not installed to code by previous owner but dumping into a window well; several days of Spring rain; the water softener's scheduled "refresh" discharge at 2 a.m. that day, further saturating the soil; and--finally--the "refresh" button bumped during the morning's demolition adding another tankful to the situation.] In 2012 Keith repaired some structural and fascia wood rotting on the original portion of deck and some cedar decking pieces rotting because that contractor had not allowed for cedar to shrink less than treated pine. When there's another project here, we'll wait for Keith Gipfert to be available to work with us.”

“We highly recommend CEC under the direction of Jese Stetson. The work was of highest quality; the team professional and courteous; the timeline ahead of schedule; the cleanup spotless! We can't say enough positive things about CEC/ Jese. We only wish the other contractors hired under our general contractor would have measured to the same bar.”